The reported project intends to continue traditions of Gödel, Einstein and Tarski continuing the spirit of the Gödel-Einstein collaboration and pursuing Tarski’s programme for unifying science. Modern logic and meta-mathematics was created (basically) by Gödel and Tarski. It is less well known that beginning with 1948 Gödel spent much time with Einstein and worked on relativity theory. Of course, he remained a logician in spirit. Gödel obtained fundamental breakthroughs in relativity like his ones in logic and foundations. The theory of general relativistic spacetimes not admitting a global Time was initiated by Gödel, and came to full blossom during the renaissance of black hole physics during the last 25 years. The present project was originally started in personal cooperation with Tarski and his collaborators. The idea is to study logic, algebra, geometry, spacetime theory and relativity in a strong unity. A sample result of ours: We proved about big, slowly rotating black holes that the usual explanation in the literature of why such black holes contain a closed timelike curve (CTC) is flawed. Namely, it is not the gravitational frame dragging effect which creates CTCs, instead, there is a completely different kind of effect in action there: ligh cones open up in the direction opposite to that of the rotation of the source and this goes on to such an extreme extent that CTCs are created. Our paper on this appears in the journal General Relativity and Gravitation.

Vályi S.: Investigations into non-classical logic - axiomatizability of spatio-temporal theories and complexity of interval-valued computations., PhD Dissertation. Doctoral School in Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Debrecen., 2007